Over 200,000 Palestinians—not 35,000—have already died since October. This is based on nearly 100,000 bombs and missiles directly on civilians, without food, water, medicine, electricity, healthcare and World Health casualty projections starting last October. The 35,000 official fatality count is absurd. No human beings could endure those massacres and related untreated diseases since October 7th. -R Bears repeating, Biden’s own humanitarian aid envoy stated weeks ago: “There is an imminent risk of starvation for the majority, if not all, the 2.2 million population of Gaza. This is not a point in debate. It is an established fact, which the United States, its experts, the international community, its experts, assess and believe is real.” -R democracynow.org/2024/4/11/head…

The enforcer president of Columbia University— Minouche Shafik—is one of the wealthiest people in America. As president, she makes over $2000 an hour every weekday. In three days, she makes more than many blue collar workers at Columbia make in a year. -R Some more data on university president salaries: According to the Pioneer Institute, the President of @Yale, Peter Salovey, makes over $900 an hour ($1.9 million per year) plus generous benefits. Per Payscale, a janitor at Yale earns an average of $22 per hour. The university president makes in about 6 days what a university janitor makes in a year.

The writer and artist unions striking for better livelihoods against the giant Hollywood studios (WB, Disney, etc.), including the wealthiest artists, should be returning "Corporate Campaign" specialist Ray Rogers calls... He has a plan for them to greatly widen the arc of the public’s attention to other corporations who can influence the outcome of the labor negotiations because of their investment stake in the entertainment industry. See: -Rcorporatecampaign.org

Thread—The massive mega storm and flood that struck Libya, taking many thousands of lives of families swept out to sea, demands greater international assistance. In 2011, Hillary Clinton, captured by the pressure of a French war plotter, pushed Obama into a criminal, unconstitutional war–even completely excluding Congress’s appropriations authority–that destroyed Libya’s government, turning the country into chaos and violence to this day.

To the Grandmaster of Tweetitis:
Credit to you for breaking the auto industry's technological stagnation with Tesla. But to deny that your companies do not receive continual federal and state subsidies – apart from overseas governmental largesse – is to deny reality.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1629251610135220226

The record is clear – billions of dollars in federal and state grants, direct and indirect tax credits, $1.3 billion in tax concessions and other "incentives" from the state of Nevada alone for a new factory in 2014.

[Thread] How about an idea. Since to pay for Biden’s proposals, all restorations of the corporate income tax, the capital gains tax and other taxes on the super wealthy are being destroyed by the GOP and 2 Democratic Senators, why not a tax on Wall Street speculation? A 2 tenth of 1 percent sales tax on stock, bond and derivatives trading will bring in $200 billion a year, or more than the scaled down price of Biden’s varied proposals to help America. Most of you pay anywhere from 5-8% sales taxes on your purchases.

Polarization between the GOP and Democrats ignores the harmonization by the two party duopoly on very important policy issues. Both Parties agree not to disturb the ever-burgeoning, bloated Military Empire Budget. Both Parties do not disturb the huge corporate welfare pouring out of Washington daily. Both Parties don't crack down on massive corporate crime. Both Parties leave Wall Street's inexhaustible Greed alone to prey on innocents. Both Parties have done nothing against massive billing fraud on consumers, huge patient casualties from preventable...

The one legged stool strategy by the House managers bares the imprint of Speaker Pelosi. A control freak, she insisted on a quick trial without witnesses in favor of a video show trial. You don't go into battle against Trump without a full hand. No witnesses, the trial is lost -R In addition to the impeachment article on Trump's insurrection against Congress, Pelosi should have added an article on his dictatorial seizure to himself of Constitutional authority and duties of Congress for 4 years. This insurrection was the culmination of serial lawlessness.

Thread: For those of you who make last minute charitable contributions to “good works,” here is my recommended list of really stalwart, result-oriented, no-nonsense civic advocacy groups. You can find out yourself all they are doing with modest budgets by going to their websites. They are the lighthouses of a democratic society. -R

The Executive Order providing $400 in unemployment insurance payments from monies not appropriated for that purpose usurped the congressional power of the purpose and constituted a criminal violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act. The Executive Order deferring indefinitely a portion of payroll taxes funding Social Security and Medicare usurped the congressional taxing power. Both constitutional violations are indisputable.